“Generational Trauma“, multi-media 3D, deer, hide, hair, birch bark, porcupine quills, ink, and glass bead work, 3′ x 2′
The image is of a young Indigenous girl in residential school who is carrying an unwanted child which was conceived from her being raped. This is the darkest piece of artwork that I will have ever created.
Kwey Aanii.
Diane nidijinikàz.
Wàbisheshì nidodem.
Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini Algonquin First Nation nidonjabà.
Bancroft endàyàn.
Omàmawininì Anishinàbe ashidj jàganàsh ikwe nda’aw.
Hello I see your light.
Diane is my name.
I belong to the Marten clan.
I come from the Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini Algonquin First Nation.
Bancroft is my home.
I am an Algonquin native and settler heritage woman.
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